Zoey J

Zoey J (조이, ゾーイ) is a discontinued vocal software voicebank, a failed attempt at a Vocaloid software voicebank.

Zoey J (조이, ゾーイ) is a successor from a long-forgotten group called Operaticaloid (which has since been removed from the internet).

History
Zoey J (ゾーイ), codenamed ZJ01 by the creator, was set to become the first VOCALOID to be given the ability to vocalize in 5 different languages: those being her main language English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. After being developed the small company hoped Crypton would license her and she'd become distributed by Crypton Future Media, Inc. She was initially created and unofficially released in January 2014 with the hope to be released for the VOCALOID3 engine (Released in 2011). She was planned to be the fifty-seventh VOCALOID overall, as well as the final addition to VOCALOID3. Plans were made to have her vocal released to be released for the engine. Her voice was planned to be provided by an inspiring, Hispanic transgender activist however they wish to remain unknown.

There have since been numerous changes and failed re-launches, such as the idea of additional voice libraries dubbed 'Trueself'and 'MP', as well as settling for an upgrade for the VOCALOID4 engine, which planned to contain an English vocal update release, increasing the range to achieve a realistic whistle tone. She failed to receive a VOCALOID4 release/update due to her voice provider being unable to finish her Japanese and Korean voicebanks in time (in August 2016), as well as the Mandarin Chinese voicebank planned for September 2017.

On May 5th, 2021 (13:33), Zoey received her first official voicebank and design outside of VOCALOID, that being with UTAU with her Japanese voicebank release. Sadly, On May 18, public consumers gave feedback about Zoey's voicebank. It was expressed that the feelings were complex, and was overall let down, and not meeting the high expectations that were built up over development. On the same day, one of Zoey's developers, Ashley Diaz, confirmed that Zoey was delayed due to mishaps with her final voicebank. The voicebank did not meet the developers' satisfactions and they needed to go back and fix it; Zoey then became temporarily suspended. Later in the month, Zoey's reference and data file was re-named to N/A/discontinued despite her suspended status.

About the result her, the group is still focusing on their own progress, they are still in an effort to one day have a collaboration with YAMAHA and hope to sell VOCALOID products in parallel to UTAU and possibly Synth V.

Zoey J. status remains 'suspended' to this day.

Marketing
VOCALOID3 Library ZJ01 Zoey Inspiring Edition was hoping to be a late addition to V3 and produced and launched in 2014, which would include a Zoey Demo song CD, stickers, badges, phone strap, manual booklet and an illustration book called "ZOEYS TRANSITIONAL VOICE". J-loid also promoted Zoey to the public by advertising her illustration on Fanloid and UTAU. A YouTube channel would release a ievan polka cover and cover of I=Fantasy once a voice bank was finalized.

During 2015, J-loid stepped forward and claimed to be producing an album for Zoey. On October 01, 2017, J-loid 'teamed up' with UTAU and used the program to release a rushed album called ZJ01 Zoey's Identity Album, featuring two notable songs and 5 popular Vocaloid covers from both VocaCircus and Crusher-P. The album was half-released in America and YouTube on May 25, 2016. Due to her voicebank having many issues and missing many vowels, both the album and Zoey was pulled back into production.

On September 24, 2021, a special project for Zoey was announced and an official Twitter account was created for the project... Details as well as a promotional video were released on her voice providers birthday, November 26. The promotion included a new illustration by illustrator ᵏÿlyñn + AI as well as the announcement of a crowdfunding campaign with aims to finally re-create and release all her voicebanks with a special collaboration album for Zoey featuring many famous Vocaloid and UTAU. Various new merchandise plans including a plush doll of Zoey and an acrylic nail set and makeup line were also showcased to be distributed if the crowdfund was a success. A special tribute message towards Zoey and her production was written to celebrate her hard work and an apology was issued to the community for not meeting the expectations of the original project. It was also announced that international fans would be able to participate in the crowdfunding via Kickstarter with more details to be released at a later date.

Sadly, the crowdfunding via Kickstarter page failed and the money was re-imburse to everyone who participated, and the idea was then abandoned. Soon after, her page was gone, and everything was deleted except her company's main page. She was soon announced suspended indefinitely.

Voicebanks
Zoey J- English

Zoey was a mature sounding 18-year-old female and was the first voicebank by J-loid to released. Her voicebank had extra English Phonetics included along with some Spanish ones. The Voicebank launched through UTAU. Zoey (OPERATICALOID2), January 12th, 2014

Zoey J - Spanish

The Spanish version was intended to match the English voicebank. During the VOCALOID3 era it was planned to be the first vocal software with a Spanish voicebank till Clara was released. Zoey (OPERATICALOID2), January 12th, 2014

Zoey J - Korean

The Korean vocal was planned and began development after a numerous amounts of debates questioned the popularity the Korean voicebank would achieve. J-loid state a Korean voicebank was intended all along and would be released. The project is currently presumed cancelled. Zoey (OPERATICALOID2), January 12th, 2015

Zoey J - Japanese

The Japanese version was intended to match the Korean voicebank. During the rise of Vocaloid it was the highly anticipated and was scheduled to be released. The project is currently presumed cancelled. Zoey (OPERATICALOID2), January 12th, 2015

Zoey J - Chinese

The Chinese vocal was planned and was intended to match the other two Asian voicebanks. J-loid claimed that the Chinese version of the voicebank doesn't always match the tone of the "Original" voicebank. The project is currently presumed cancelled. Zoey (OPERATICALOID2), January 12th, 2016

Multiexpression VCV
Voicebanks - Soft, Shout, Whisper, Whistle, Trueself and MP

Zoey was planned originally to have all her vocal modified voicebanks to be sold separately, however the time and money required was too much to afford so they planned to make all the Voicebanks into addons you could download separately and layer to change the vocals.

Zoey J - Whistle

Designed to be an update to the voicebank data, allowing Zoey to reach natural sounding whistle tones.

Zoey J - Trueself

Made and set to be her default and primary voicebank.

Zoey J - MP

Produced to give her a more male range, MP: Male Presenting. Due to her being advertised as Transgender (MTF) this raised many concerns of slight transphobia, J-loid defended the voicebank by saying 'Vocaloid has an option to change the gender on whatever singer is currently selected, why not one up them and give Zoey a broader range without needing to mess with the settings?'.

Zoey J - HORROR

Zoey was planned to have a slight growl and gravelly voice addon as a Limited-edition Halloween update. However, concerns were raised when her new illustration much to closely resembled Calne Ca. The addon was confirmed to be cancelled.

Personal

 * Re-uploaded data and information about the mascot before she was pulled from UTAU and 'retired'

Etymology
The name was chosen by the meaning in the multiple languages she speaks and to recognize her voicebank provider. Zoey, it means "Life." Her name is based on the concept of that when the first being came, they brought life into the universe.

Her codename of "ZJ01" means "Zoey J-loid 1".

Her name in Chinese is "Zuǒ Yī" (Simplified Chinese: 佐伊; Traditional Chinese: 佐伊).

Her name in Korean is "Joi" (Korean: 조이).

Her name in Japanese is "Zoi" (Japanese: ゾーイ).

Personality
It's fandom and small cult following have portrayed her personality based upon her apparent 'friendship' with VOCALOID3 mascot, SeeU. 'Cute and lively yet mysterious looking 17-year-old girl.' However, she has been compared to a Tsundeloid from time to time.

Biography
Created by J-loid, these discontinued/suspended voicebanks are a more traditional and finalized version of their original counterparts which have been long since deleted, the Operaticaloids. The original group included voicebanks named: Saisho No Maruchiboisu, Kashikoi and Amaimono (they later added Sainenshō into the group, a mermaid vocal voicebank).

Sometime later, the Fanloid community denied acceptance and dubbed them Pitchloid/Annoyloid, which caused the Operaticaloids to decrease the members and eventually disbanding the group.

Character
Zoey J is classified as a tsundere. Having this personality type means that she has, above all, a considerable amount of pride. Whatever she does or thinks cannot hurt her image as a better person than others. However, everything changes when she falls in love with someone. Not wanting to lose her pride, she starts to fight a new feeling.

Zoey J's gender was a huge topic during her release, she is a transgender vocalist. Her first design was as a male, but over time her gender transitioned along with her voice provider.

Appearance
Her mouth can detach and reveal appendages according to the leaked image of her unfinished HORROR+ voicebank. According to her illustrator, they were actually inspired from Calne Ca, however it was put on hold due to worries of copyright.

Her necklaces are 2 USB cords. Soundwaves light up on the center of her circle, orange earrings. There is a pause and power button at the back of her clothes, a black corset under her cropped vest. During a quick interview starring Zoey conducted by J-loid, Zoey revealed her clothing size to be XL.

Relations
https://winterdrive.wixsite.com/utau/kye
 * KYO, real name: Kaisei Fuyuki (冬木 快征) - An UTAU she met during her short time being active, developed strong feelings towards him.

https://winterdrive.wixsite.com/utau/gao
 * GAO, real name: Goro Yoshikawa (吉川 五郎 ) - An UTAU she met while hanging out with KYO, they are good friends.

http://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/SeeU
 * SeeU, SeeU (시유) - A VOCALOID3 she idolized since release, despite not being a Vocaloid, SeeU still enjoys spending time with her and they are considered best friends.

http://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/UNI
 * Uni, UNI (유니) - A VOCALOID4 she doesn't get along with very well, she sees her as somebody who replaced SeeU. They are acquaintances at best.


 * Calne Ca, Calne Ca (骸音シーエ) - A Fanloid derivative character of Hatsune Miku, she was there for Zoey ever since her first unofficial release. They are friends.

http://synthv.fandom.com/wiki/SOLARIA
 * SOLARIA, SOLARIA (Synth V) - A English vocal developed and distributed by Eclipsed Sounds, LLC. Finds her voice beautiful. They've never met.

Likes

 * Conchas
 * UTAU, Vocaloid and Synth V
 * K-pop
 * Drag
 * Makeup
 * Men
 * The original Operaticaloids

Disclaimer
'''ZOEY AND ZOEYJ-LOID ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON, THE VOICE PROVIDER WAS ORIGINALLY A MEMBER OF J-LOID BUT LEFT AFTER THE DISBAND OF OPERATICALOIDS. WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE RIGHTS TO CONTROL THE ACCOUNT AND USE IT TO SPREAD OUR STORIES'''
 * ZOEY, J-LOID AND THE OPERATICALOIDS HAVE 0 CONNECTION WITH VOCALOID, CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA, YAMAHA OR SBS A&T CO. LTD.
 * ZOEY WAS AN UTAU FOR A SHORT TIME TILL SHE WAS COMPLETELY REMOVED DUE TO HATE AND POOR QUALITY
 * J-LOID HAS NOT PLANNED TO RE-RELEASE HER VOICEBANK AND HAS LABELED HER AS A FAILER, THIS PAGE IS J-LOIDS FINAL ATTEMP AT GETTING SOME FORM OF SUPPORTERS
 * IF ENOUGH SUPPORT IS GIVEN, MORE MAY HAPPEN

Trivia

 * The producer of Calne Ca has yet to reveal any approval or acceptance of Zoeys cancelled HORROR voicebank or illustration.
 * Her original name was Saisho No Maruchiboisu (西商のマルチボイス) being the leader in the Operaticaloids
 * The very first name given to Zoey was ZeeU and had a very similar outfit to SeeWoo
 * Her first song was a cover of "Attention" sung by the K-pop group Lady